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Star Trek

METAMORPHOSIS (S2, EP9)

When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk meets one of the pioneers of space flight, Zefram Cochrane.









Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv series Season 2 Episode 9 - 11/10/1967

(from internet transcript)

Dr. MCCOY: How do you feel?

NANCY Hedford, Federation Commissioner: Terrible. How should I feel?

MCCOY: You're running a little temperature. Perhaps you should lie down.

NANCY: Doctor, will you please just leave me alone. It's the heat.









Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv series Season 2 Episode 9 - 11/10/1967

(from internet transcript)

KIRK: Bones, get a physiological reading on that, whatever it is.

COCHRANE: Hello! Are you real? I mean, I'm not imagining you, am I?

KIRK: We're real enough.

COCHRANE: You speak English. Earth people?

KIRK: From the Federation.

COCHRANE: The F? Well, it doesn't matter. I'm Cochrane. I've been marooned here who knows how long. If you only knew how good it is to see you. And a woman. A beautiful one at that.

KIRK: I'm Captain James T. Kirk, commanding the starship Enterprise. (they shake hands) This is my first officer Mister Spock.

COCHRANE: You're a Vulcan, aren't you?

SPOCK: Correct.

KIRK: Chief Surgeon Leonard McCoy.

COCHRANE: Doctor.

MCCOY: Pleasure.

KIRK: Oh, and excuse me, Assistant Federation Commissioner Hedford.

COCHRANE: Ma'am. You're food to a starving man. All of you. Hey, that's a nice ship. Simple and clean. Been trying to get her to go again? Well, forget it. It won't work.

MCCOY: He's human, Jim. Everything checks out perfectly.

KIRK: Mister Cochrane. We were forced off our course and taken here by some force we couldn't identify.

SPOCK: Which seems to be on the surface of this body at the moment.

COCHRANE: Well, I wouldn't know anything about that.









From 7/21/1979 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan and my sister-in-law Phoebe Cates are lawfully married in the state of Vermont ) To 8/5/1983 ( ) is 1476 days

1476 = 738 + 738

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days



From 3/18/1960 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Long Live Walter Jameson" ) To 12/19/1977 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Logan's Run"::"The Judas Goat" ) is 6485 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/5/1983 ( ) is 6485 days



From 5/5/1975 ( premiere USA TV series pilot "Doctors' Hospital"::"One of Our Own" ) To 8/5/1983 ( ) is 3014 days

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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/18/1969 ( as Kerry Burgess my official US Navy documents includes: In the Circuit Court of Sevier County Arkansas Thedia Gay Burgess was granted a divorce from Joseph Wayne Burgess ) is 1507 days



From 5/21/1969 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD and in 1973 the law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England ) To 8/5/1983 ( ) is 5189 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/17/1980 ( premiere USA TV series episode "In Search of..."::"Wild Children" ) is 5189 days



From 4/3/1962 ( premiere USA TV series pilot "McHales Navy" ) To 8/5/1983 ( ) is 7794 days

7794 = 3897 + 3897

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the comet nicknamed "Lucifer" - threatening extinction by death and destruction of all life on this planet Earth - in the outer solar system beyond planet Saturn and diverts it away from our planet Earth ) is 3897 days



https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-signing-the-national-child-support-enforcement-month-proclamation

The American Presidency Project

RONALD REAGAN

40th President of the United States: 1981 ‐ 1989

Remarks on Signing the National Child Support Enforcement Month Proclamation

August 05, 1983

Margaret, thank you very much.

It's a shocking fact that over half of all women who receive child support orders receive less than what they're due. In fact, 28 percent of these women and their children receive no payments at all. There are children in this country who are owed $4 billion from delinquent parents. This is an absolutely unacceptable situation.

Secretary Heckler has called it a growing national disgrace, and I agree completely. A parent's obligation to a child is one which must not be abrogated. And this is not only a financial debt; it's a moral one.

As Governor of California, I made sure that our State had tough child support enforcement laws. I even came before the Congress to lobby for an effective national system to protect the welfare of our nation's children.

Today, in proclaiming August as Child Support Enforcement Month, I hope to focus the Nation's attention on these children who are at the mercy of thoughtless parents. Let's make it our national goal to achieve 100 percent collection from the absent, neglectful parents.

August will kick off this drive, but let me say slack enforcement of child support payments will never be tolerated. The Federal child support enforcement program itself can stand improvement, and I want to thank Secretary Heckler and the composers of our proposal for their diligent and compassionate work. We must reform the Federal child support enforcement system so that it can effectively serve the cheated children of America. I urge the Congress to pass the legislation that we've introduced. We want parents who are deadbeats to pay up and deliver on their responsibilities. And I hope signing this resolution will draw attention not only to the problem but to the solution.

And now, thank you for being here. And I will sign the resolution, and, hopefully, one day we'll sign the legislation.

[At this point, the President signed S.J. Res. 56 and the proclamation.]

That does it.

Note: The President spoke at 10:50 a.m. at the signing ceremony in the Cabinet Room at the White House. Also participating in the ceremony were Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret M. Heckler, Members of Congress, and leaders of child support enforcement organizations.









Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv series Season 2 Episode 9 - 11/10/1967

(from internet transcript)

SPOCK: Her attitude when she approaches you is profoundly different than when she contacts us. Her appearance is soft, gentle. Her voice is melodic, pleasing. I do not totally understand the emotion, but it obviously exists. The Companion loves you.

COCHRANE: Do you know what you're saying? For all these years, I've let something as alien as that crawl around inside me, into my mind, my feelings.

KIRK: What are you complaining about? It kept you alive.

COCHRANE: That thing fed on me. It used me. It's disgusting.

MCCOY: There's nothing disgusting about it. It's just another life form, that's all. You get used to those things.

COCHRANE: You're as bad as it is.

SPOCK: Your highly emotional reaction is most illogical. Your relationship with the Companion has for one hundred and fifty years been emotionally satisfying, eminently practical, and totally harmless. It may indeed have been quite beneficial.

COCHRANE: Is this what the future holds? Men who have no notion of decency or morality? Maybe I'm a hundred and fifty years out of style, but I'm not going to be fodder for any inhuman monster. (leaves)

SPOCK: Fascinating. A totally parochial attitude.

NANCY: Doctor. Doctor.

MCCOY: Right here, Miss Hedford.

NANCY: I heard him. He was loved and he resents it.

MCCOY: You just rest.

NANCY: No. I don't want to die. I've been good at my job, but I've never been loved. Never. What kind of life is that? Not to be loved, never to have shown love? And he runs away from love. (cries)









https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-5080-national-child-support-enforcement-month-1983

The American Presidency Project

RONALD REAGAN

40th President of the United States: 1981 ‐ 1989

Proclamation 5080 - National Child Support Enforcement Month, 1983

August 05, 1983

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

More than 15 million children are living in families where the father is absent, and nearly one-third of those are living in poverty. More than half the families who should receive court-ordered child support to not receive full payment, thus depriving children of billions of dollars in support each year. In some cases, these unfortunate children are left without the necessities of life.

The American people willingly extend help to children in need, including those whose parents are failing to meet their responsibilities. However, it is our obligation to make every effort to place the financial responsibility where it rightly belongs—on the parent who has been legally ordered to support his child.

For several years, the Federal government has worked with the States to recover child support payments from non-custodial parents. Collections for these children have improved dramatically in recent years, enabling thousands of families to leave the public assistance rolls. Nonetheless, we must work even harder to ensure that all American children are provided the financial support they deserve and to support enforcement personnel, judicial officials, and the legal community in alleviating this problem.

The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 56, has designated the month of August 1983 as National Child Support Enforcement Month and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of that month.

Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of August 1983 as National Child Support Enforcement Month, and I call upon all government agencies and the people of the United States to observe the month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eightythree, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eighth.

Signature of Ronald Reagan

RONALD REAGAN









Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv series Season 2 Episode 9 - 11/10/1967

(from internet transcript)

KIRK: Mister Cochrane, if you left here, what would happen to you?

COCHRANE: I'd begin to age again, normally.

KIRK: Do you want to leave here?

COCHRANE: Believe me, Captain, immortality consists largely of boredom. What's it like out there in the galaxy?

KIRK: We're on a thousand planets and spreading out. We cross fantastic distances and everything's alive, Cochrane. Life everywhere. We estimate there are millions of planets with intelligent life. We haven't begun to map them. Interesting?

COCHRANE: How would you like to sleep for a hundred and fifty years and wake up in a new world?

KIRK: It's all out there waiting for you, but we'll need your help to get away.

COCHRANE: You've got it.



- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:40 PM Pacific-time USA Saturday 06/15/2024